Education & Exchange

As part of the State Department’s sports diplomacy initiative, 16 young Filipino basketball players and two coaches recently visited the US to participate in a number of team-building and community-building activities. Sports diplomacy is seen as a critical form of...

Sydney, Australia played host to the first games of this year’s Major League Baseball season over the weekend. This was the 7th time in the league’s history that the season opener has been held outside the continental US, and the first time in Australia.

In spite of heavy snow in the Washington area earlier in the week, today is the Spring Equinox and the official launch of The 102nd National Cherry Blossom Festival. Cherry blossom trees, or “Sakura” in Japanese, were a present from the people of Tokyo, Japan to the...

An American actress will play one of the leading roles in its morning serial drama starting in the Fall of 2014. The drama series has been broadcast for over 50 years, and some consider the series the “national drama” of Japan.

There are almost three million Indian Americans in the United States and the contributions of this community to US culture are explored in a new exhibition titled “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation.”

A group of US Navy service members recently visited an orphanage on Geoje Island, off the southern coast of South Korea. American naval personnel have been regularly visiting the orphanage for over 60 years.